OpenSolarisTM …

                                               OpenSolarisTM
                                               Operating System
                                               Be brilliant faster




                                     <           The open source community gives developers like you easy access to the latest technologies,
                                                 enabling you to create new services quickly. But to leverage those technologies, you
                                                 need a development environment that's stable, consistent, and easy to install and use.

                                     Based on SolarisTM -- an enterprise-class OS           By offering developers advanced Solaris tech-
                                     that's the result of a $500 million research           nology, access to the latest innovations from
                                     and development investment by Sun -- the               the OpenSolaris community, innovations in
                                     OpenSolaris OS offers free, built-in features          packaging, and the assurance of Sun's proven,
                                     that help you build, debug, and deploy new             extensive testing processes and worldwide
                                     applications faster.                                   support, OpenSolaris makes it faster and
                                                                                            easier than ever to produce optimized, high-
                                     With new releases scheduled for every six              quality code.
                                     months, the OpenSolaris OS delivers the latest
                                     open source technologies in a development and          Open source and Sun
Highlights
                                     deployment environment that's familiar to              As a worldwide leader in open source, Sun
· Open source innovation with the    GNU/Linux and UNIX® users. It also provides            has had engineers participating in open
  assurance of proven, extensive     access to unique Solaris 10 OS features, such          source communities and listening to what
  testing processes and worldwide    as Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Solaris Containers,       customers want for years. In a report on
  support
                                     Predictive Self-Healing, and Solaris ZFS, plus         Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
· Familiar environment to GNU/       the latest innovations from the OpenSolaris            prepared for the European Commission in
  Linux and UNIX developers
                                     community.                                             2006, Sun was found to have contributed
· Easy to install and deploy                                                                substantially more code to a Linux distribution
· Network repository system for      Between releases, the OpenSolaris Image                than any other organization. Sun's overall
  greater control and flexibility    Packaging System provides necessary updates            contribution was greater than that of the
· OpenSolarisTM Image Packaging      from a wide range of Sun and other repositories.       next five contributors combined.
  System: easy access control to     Developers can distribute your applications
  applications; automatically        through your own package repository, so you            In addition to OpenSolaris, Sun contributes
  addresses dependencies
                                     reach new markets quickly and offer updates            to a range of open source projects, including
· Supported on more than 1000        easily.                                                MySQLTM, NetBeansTM, GlassFishTM, OpenOffice.orgTM,
  systems from a wide range of
                                                                                            OpenJDKTM, java.net, and many others. Developers
  vendors, including Sun, HP, IBM,
                                     Because the OpenSolaris OS is supported on             and businesses can rely on Sun for an end-to-
  Dell, and Fujitsu
                                     more than 1000 platforms, it offers great advan-       end open source environment for development
                                     tages in terms of flexibility and scalability. Now     and deployment -- all from a single, trusted
                                     you can take your ideas from experiment to             vendor.
                                     global deployment without switching oper-
                                     ating systems. And you can participate in the          OpenSolaris OS release
                                     OpenSolaris community, working with devel-             Developers accustomed to other open source
                                     opers around the world who are contributing            OS distributions will find OpenSolaris familiar
                                     to the innovation, including thousands of              and easy to install. Plus, the OpenSolaris OS is
                                     Sun engineers                                          a stable, supported platform that combines
                                                                                            proven Solaris technologies with new,
                                                                                            advanced features.
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The OpenSolaris OS is distributed as a much                              · Solaris ZFS. With Solaris ZFS snapshots, you
smaller install image than the Solaris 10 OS,                               can test your ideas and then roll back to an
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and it's available on a single LiveCD that                                  earlier development point if a problem is
                                                                                                                                                      To learn more about the OpenSolaris
includes the core OS -- the kernel, system                                  discovered. (Solaris ZFS is the default file
                                                                                                                                                      operating system, visit opensolaris.com.
libraries, and system utilities. And the LiveCD's                           system for the OpenSolaris OS.)
localized, graphical installer makes the instal-                         · DTrace. DTrace provides pervasive observability
                                                                                                                                                      To join the OpenSolaris community, go to
lation process familiar and intuitive. So with                              to accelerate application development and
                                                                                                                                                      opensolaris.org.
the OpenSolaris OS, you get the flexibility of                              optimization of Apache/MySQL/PHP (AMP) and
a Linux-like distribution and the advanced                                  MySQL/Apache/Ruby/Solaris (MARS) stacks
                                                                                                                                                      You can download the OpenSolaris
features that make the Solaris OS unique.                                · Solaris Containers. Solaris Containers tech-
                                                                                                                                                      operating system at opensolaris.com/get
                                                                            nology lets you simulate and debug distributed
The LiveCD also enables you to try the OS before                            applications in multiple zones and test multiple
installation, and to select, install, and upgrade                           application server versions in identical environ-
additional components using the network-based                               ments, ensuring that applications can be
OpenSolaris Image Packaging System. You can                                 deployed on a wide range of systems from                              Sun offers two types of support for the
get it through the opensolaris.com Web site or                              single CPU through multi-CPU multicore                                OpenSolaris OS:
peer-to-peer mechanisms such as BitTorrent.                                 systems.                                                              · Essentials has a 48-hour email response and
                                                                         · Predictive Self Healing. This unique feature                               provides the opportunity to report bugs and
Powerful features                                                           automatically diagnoses, isolates, and aids                               receive updates when available.
The open source OpenSolaris OS contains many                                in recovery from hardware and application                             · Production provides 24x7 phone support; the
new features not available in even the most                                 faults, enabling services to remain available                             opportunity to report bugs, receive updates
current Solaris 10 updates, including simplified                            in the face of catastrophic component, soft-                              when available, and access future premium
installation; a familiar, easy-to-update environ-                           ware, or configuration problems.                                          network package repositories; and full esca-
ment; and built-in tools that make it easier to                                                                                                       lation support.
develop and deploy applications that run on a                            Support
wide range of systems. The full upgrades                                 Unlike other freely licensed operating systems,                          Both levels of support have an 18-month lifecycle,
planned for every six months will include tools                          the Solaris support model doesn't force you to                           so you can innovate with the assurance of
to enable seamless updates to the OS.                                    choose between free and supportable versions.                            industry-leading support through several
                                                                         Solaris and OpenSolaris OS releases are both                             scheduled upgrades of the OpenSolaris OS.
To make development more efficient and                                   free to acquire, and optional support services
ensure faster, more consistent deployments,                              are available for both -- including robust devel-                        The OpenSolaris OS provides many third-party
the OpenSolaris OS leverages key features of                             oper support provided by a world-class organi-                           applications as part of the default installation,
Solaris that aren't available in any other oper-                         zation that stands behind its open source                                available on the network package repository. A
ating system, including:                                                 products.                                                                full list of available software can be viewed at
                                                                                                                                                  pkg.opensolaris.org.




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